Biography
Peter Handke (born 1942 in Griffen, Austria) is one of the most controversial and formally innovative German-language writers of his generation and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019—a choice that provoked international protest because of his long-standing support for Serbian political positions during the Yugoslav wars. Handke's breakthrough came with Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience, 1966), which attacks the conventions of theatre itself. His major plays include Kaspar (1967), a language experiment based on the case of Kaspar Hauser, and Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wussten (The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, 1992), a silent choreography of passing crowds. Handke is also the author of important novels, screenplays for Wim Wenders (Der Himmel über Berlin), and poetry. He lives in Chaville near Paris.
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